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Phillip F. Nelson
A FEW WORDS REGARDING WHAT THIS SITE IS ALL ABOUT
For those who don’t understand what I’m about or why I have
chosen to write four books about a president I have detested since at least
1962, allow me to explain that. First, understand that it is not my
nature to dwell on negativity; the opposite is true, I strive to remain
positive, as do most people. In fact, I consider myself as the bearer of
torches, lighting the darkness left in the wake of the 36th POTUS.
The darkness was put into the corrupted historical record of
Lyndon Johnson’s reign as President by a succession of many other authors who
took the opposite tack as they intentionally hid his intrinsic criminality. The
original “biographers” (whom I have called out within those books) he recruited
rewrote actual history by either ignoring the worst of his deceits or reframing
that which could not easily be swept under the rug or into the dustbin of
history. In so doing, they have replaced historic facts with
mythologically fabricated lies. My humble intent is merely to point out
these instances, prove the deceits as best I can, and shine the spotlight into
the dark recesses to rediscover nearly forgotten truths.
It is an unfortunate predicament that we must all face, or
ignore at our peril — but the continued beatification of the presidency of
Lyndon B. Johnson, honoring a very dishonorable man as though it will somehow
absolve him of his criminality — is to deny the existence of a cancer upon the
nation that will eventually destroy it. His political progeny, which
continue to multiply, repeat his manipulative methods and criminal conduct in
their efforts to reinforce the hiding of his deceits, criminal acts and
cover-ups, have succeeded in extending the reign of terror he brought forth
well into the new millennium.
Consider how other nations have acknowledged the pernicious
tyrants who caused so much destruction in their own histories: For
example, Russia has cleansed the worst of its past by renaming Stalingrad as
Volgograd and Leningrad as St. Petersburg;
Germany, so relieved by Hitler’s death (or his fleeing to South America), that
his name became so reviled by the vast majority of its population that no
monuments were ever dedicated to his memory and his book Mein Kampf became
verboten and, for decades, practically disappeared from existence. Compare
that to the number of parks, expressways, buildings, schools (and soon, a new
Navy warship) named after Lyndon B. Johnson, who shared many of the worst
traits of the most infamous dictators in world history.
The following maxims (the original by Santayana and rephrased
by Winston Churchill), summarize these points succinctly and forcefully:
‘THOSE WHO
CANNOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT’
~ George Santayana, 1905
‘THOSE WHO
FAIL TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT’
~ Winston Churchill, 1948
“HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS.”
~ Winston Churchill [with certain irony, having first hand
experience in being a “victor”]
Truth is often the first casualty in the aftermath of
conflict. The creation of mythological stories about real-life historical
figures has become entrenched in every facet of American culture for a very
long time.
In the case of mid-twentieth-century leaders, it has taken
nearly five decades for truth-seekers to sift out the myths—composed of subtle
deceits and brazen lies—from the basest pure truths.
President Lyndon Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover are
the clearest examples of how the tension between myths and truths is still
being wrought, in a continuing cultural movement that has no end in sight.
Welcome Seekers of Truth about
LBJ’s REAL Legacy
This blog, “LBJ The Master of Deceit” is dedicated to finding,
reporting and curating the actual truths of the life and times of the 36th
POTUS, and the factual records — as nearly as they can be reconstructed given
the massive, multiple cover-ups and still-sealed records* — of the Johnson
presidency.
Needless to say — but important, nonetheless, in setting the
context — Lyndon Johnson did not invent, nor did he have any sort of exclusive
ownership of, such politician’s traits as treachery or deceitfulness. His
imprint had more to do with the audacity, brazenness and levels of corruption
and deceit and treachery that he introduced into the political arena during his
reign of power. More than any others of his contemporary era — even those
who were instrumental in his ascension to the presidency and the brutal
exercise of his near dictatorial wrath during the tumultuous 1960s — it was his
lifetime pursuit of crimes and their cover-ups that put him into the
all-powerful position he maintained throughout that decade.
Beyond his earlier crimes, the measures taken in the immediate
aftermath of the Israeli attack on his own ship, the USS Liberty on
June 8, 1967 — to completely erase the actual events of that failed mission
when the ship didn’t sink, and replace the record with a massively fictional
account — illustrated his puissant ability, under extreme exigencies, to
instantly create a cover-up of presidential treasons. He had pressed
Israeli leadership to conduct it, over many months of planning, but their
curious “jump-starting” of the long-planned start of the Six Day War ten days
too early (It had been scheduled for June 15, 1967) and then the even stranger
inability of the motor-torpedo boats to hit the defenseless ship, caused it to
become clear that there was no unanimity among them to comply. The “last
straw” — which proved that the desperate Johnson was the instigator of that
attack — was his order, according to credible witnesses, to one of his own
submarines to fire the torpedo that did finally hit it. It was the horrid
culmination of a lifetime of cunning deceits, in this case, caused by his
deluded belief that he would be able to use another “false flag” pretext — of
putting the blame on Egypt for the attack — despite the fact that their air
force had been virtually destroyed by Israel in their sneak attack on the first
day of the war: Israeli leaders knew it would be impossible to support the
assertion that Egypt was the attacker. Thus, he forced them to assert
that the two and one-half hour sustained assault was due to “accidental
mistaken identification” and, to this day, as absurd as it is — for numerous
reasons, as explained in Remember the Liberty! — that remains
the official position.
At that point in time, he was 58 years old, two months short
of his 59th year; according to his most prominent biographer, Robert Caro,
he had practiced his deceits in small ways well before he turned ten years old,
each one portending greater steps across the boundaries of ethical, moral
and/or legal precepts. As an adult, the intrusions grew greater, into
such things as campaign fund fraud, stolen elections, collusion with numerous
criminal associates including organized crime figures and murders of people who
either crossed him directly or represented the potential to do great political
harm to him personally.
It was no coincidence that the following year — 1968, his last
year in the Oval Office — became a year of murders and mayhem: It began
with his decision on March 31 to not run for reelection, followed by the
assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. four days later and Robert F. Kennedy
two months after that, then his immediate turnabout, albeit unsuccessful,
decision to reenter the presidential race as a “White Knight” savior. It
was as if he had voluntarily stepped aside — though temporarily — to remove
himself from suspicion during those nefarious operations, and the on-going
primaries that he clearly wanted to avoid, but leave himself an opening to
return to the campaign just in time to run again for the presidency he had
always thought was his destiny.
Neither was it a coincidence that the December, 1968 murder of
pacifist monk Thomas Merton, another man in his
ascendency whom Johnson feared might eventually expose presidential treasons,
was similarly done in his last months in office.
In the aftermath of the disastrous 1968 Democratic Convention
in Chicago, the sitting president, Lyndon Johnson, who had been dis-invited to
his own convention — and whom was not even mentioned by the speakers there, had
this to say:
“I’ve never felt lower in my life . . . How do you
think it feels to be completely rejected by the party you’ve spent your life
with, knowing that your name cannot be mentioned without choruses of boos and
obscenities?”
It is interesting that the so-called “historians” who
consistently vote Johnson into the “top ten” list of presidents never mention
what his own party thought of him at the end of his reign of terror.
THE
SINGLE BEST VIDEO EVER RECORDED ABOUT THE REAL HISTORY OF THE JFK
ASSASSINATION!
This video is about 45 minutes long, but every minute contains
incredibly important background information which is key to understanding what
really happened. I owe my entire “Reawakening” about this case to having seen
one of the original (of the five) 2003 broadcasts by the History Channel and
realized that my long-time suspicion about Johnson was correct; unfortunately,
it didn’t take long for the Johnson sycophants to come out of the woodwork to
force the History Channel to never rebroadcast it after 2003 .
It was this realization that caused me to decide, four years
later, to write the book. I should have acknowledged this within the book but
neglected to do so, instead citing only the original book sources for some of
the same material that was used here. But it was this film that was the
single “proximate cause” of the eventual book. So, “Kudos” especially to Ed
Tatro, Nigel Turner, the unsung hero Rick Russo (who had previously
acquired the U.S. broadcast rights to the series The Men Who Killed
Kennedy), together with all the others associated with the production of
this video!
∗ One
need only consider the numerous records still under seal — or those of which
officials have acknowledged were “inadvertently” destroyed — to understand how
“massive” those cover-ups have been. They include the millions of records
pertaining to JFK’s assassination that Johnson personally ordered to be sealed
for seventy-five years (and which Congress, in 1992, ordered to be unsealed by
2017 — yet many thousands still remain sealed). The fact that the Secret
Service contemptuously destroyed many of those records before they were opened,
the fact that the Los Angles Police Department destroyed many of the records of
Robert Kennedy’s assassination, just as the Memphis Police Department destroyed
many records of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, all further validate
this point.
WARNING: Unless you are prepared to rethink all of the
many myths that have been previously accepted and publicized about Lyndon B.
Johnson and his presidency — many of which you will find dissected within these
pages — then you may find yourself disappointed with the sordid truthful
information as presented herein. (Interestingly, many folks seem to
prefer to believe the myths, all based upon disinformation planted either by
Johnson himself or through his highly paid aide/sycophants and others paid by
“bought and paid for” faux-historians, biographers and so-called
‘journalists’).
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one too?) My review of David Martin’s new book has been posted on Amazon,
although it may not be displayed there for a few days pending their review and
approval. (Mr. Martin used the first and third paragraphs of it for a blurb on
the … Continue reading Book Review: “The Assassination of James
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THIS VIDEO (CLICK HERE) includes interviews with many of the
sailors and officers aboard the Liberty, and contemporaneous navy brass, who
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Liberty! there is no other realistic explanation for why Israel would knowingly
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CORRECTION (May 24, 2019) — The “strikethrough” sentences below
were in error. The publisher had nothing to do with this, the book is not
“remaindered” and in fact they plan to publish a softcover edition of the book
with a brand new Foreword, written by the famed early JFK researcher Edgar F.
Tatro! The publisher, … Continue reading Bad News Me = Good News YOU